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Thomas J. Laney

1878 - 1953 Hymnal Number: d174 Author of "I'll live on, yes, I'll live on" in Spiritual Evangel Thomas Jesse Laney Born: May 17, 1878, Carroll County, Georgia. Died: January 5, 1953, Jefferson County, Alabama. Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama. --www.hymntime.com/tch

G. T. Byrd

1871 - 1950 Hymnal Number: d128 Author of "All alone" in Spiritual Evangel George Thomas Byrd was born on April 16, 1871 in Haralson County, Georgia. He was a Methodist minister, and later a bishop in the Methodist Holston Conference, living in Dayton, Tennessee. He died on October 13, 1950. His works include: Living Songs of Faith and Hope (Dayton, Tennessee: G. T. Byrd, 1940) See more at http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/y/r/byrd_gt.htm

Edgar Jackson

Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "A robe and a crown He'll give me" in Spiritual Evangel

Curtis J. Williams

Hymnal Number: d194 Author of "If the light has gone out" in Spiritual Evangel

Nina Clarke

Hymnal Number: d66 Author of "My Reward" in Spiritual Evangel

Henry Martyn Dexter

1821 - 1890 Person Name: H. M. Dexter Hymnal Number: d137 Author of "Shepherd of eager [tender] youth" in Spiritual Evangel Dexter, Henry Martyn, D.D., born at Plympton, Mass., Aug. 13, 1821, and educated at Yale College, and Andover. In 1844 he was ordained Pastor of a Congregational Church at Manchester, New Haven. In 1849 he removed to the Berkeley Street Congregational Church, Boston, where he remained until his appointment as Editor of the Congregationalist, in 1867. Dr. Dexter is the translator of “Shepherd of tender youth" [see Clemens, Titus], in common usage in Great Britain and America. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. L. Holman

1784 - 1842 Hymnal Number: d96 Author of "Lord, in thy presence here we meet" in Spiritual Evangel Born: October 24, 1784, Danville, Kentucky. Died: March 28, 1842, Aurora, Indiana. Buried: Veraestau Cemetery, Aurora, Indiana. When [Holman] was sixteen years of age he united with the Clear Creek Baptist church. For his life-work he directed his attention to the bar in Newcastle. For a while, he read law in the Lexington office of Henry Clay. On account of his opposition to slavery, he crossed the Ohio river in 1810, and made his home in Indiana, on a bluff to which he gave the name Veraestau, and where he continued to reside the remainder of his life. It appears he come into a considerable estate soon after he turned twenty-one. Five years later, he brought his slaves to Indiana for the sole purpose of freeing them. He was named Prosecutor of Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1811. In 1814, he was elected a member of the territorial legislature, and near the close of the same year he was made presiding judge for his district. Under the state government, in 1816, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court, a position which he filled fourteen years. In 1831, he was a candidate for United States senator, losing to John Tipton by a single vote. Four years later he was appointed United States district judge for Indiana, and in this office he continued until his death. Holman took a deep interest in missions, Sunday-schools, Bible and temperance work. In 1834, he was ordained, and on his circuits he frequently addressed large audiences upon topics connected with these enterprises. For many years he was a vice-president of the American Sunday-school Union. He was also president of the Western Baptist Publication and Sunday-school Society. For five years he was president of the Indiana Baptist Convention. He was also, from its organization, a member of the Indiana Baptist Education Society. His works include: The Prisoners of the Niagara, or Errors of Education. A New Novel, Founded on Fact (Frankfort, Kentucky: 1810) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Maria Weston Chapman

1806 - 1885 Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "Gather the golden grain" in Spiritual Evangel Chapman, Maria Weston. Wrote several anti-slavery hymns, including "O God of freedom, bless this night" and "O God of freedom! hear us pray." Edited Songs of the Free, 1836. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives